The demography problem we all face

[anon]

Lenin's views, from what I can remember, were based on separation of Religion from State absolutely. His views were that religion was a private affair and an individuals right. Don't blame Lenin, after all France has similar legislation.

Yes, very private. Just don't get reported to the authorities for it. Separation was euphemism for deportation.


Suggest you might have a look in the google at an article on 100 leaders published in Times magazine. Article is based on archives in what was Soviet Union.

Search argument - lenin

Read: Time 100: VI Lenin

'In some scholarly circles in the West, Stalin was seen as an "aberration," a tyrant who perverted Lenin's intentions at the end of Lenin's life. But as more and more evidence of Lenin's cruelty emerged from the archives, that notion of the "good Lenin" and the "bad Stalin" became an academic joke. Very few of Stalin's policies were without roots in Leninism: it was Lenin who built the first camps; Lenin who set off artificial famine as a political weapon; Lenin who disbanded the last vestige of democratic government, the Constituent Assembly, and devised the Communist Party as the apex of a totalitarian structure; Lenin who first waged war on the intelligentsia and on religious believers, wiping out any traces of civil liberty and a free press.'

By -
David Remnick, a New Yorker staff writer, is the author of Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994.

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[Joe Blow]

Lenin said "Religion is the opium of the people." That sort of thinking led to extermination of millions of people.

Actually it was Karl Marx that said that. That is also the shortened version. The full quote is this:

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

 

[anon]

Actually it was Karl Marx that said that. That is also the shortened version. The full quote is this:

You are right, Joe. I discovered only yesterday whilst doing some research on Lenin that the quote was originated by Karl Marx. However, I have read and heard a long time ago that Lenin used it, and acted vigorously in enforcing that belief.

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